After ten minutes of haamering a ceratin amount of nails you have 124 nails left. you hammer 15 nails per minute

Question

what equatyiions represent this situation and how many nails did i start with

 

Answer 1

The rate of hammering is = 15 nails/ min.

This continued for 10 min.

So; 15 x 10 = 150 nails used

124 nails left

So; 150 + 124 = 274 Total number of nails